- Homosexuality
- ⚢Varies by Region
- Gay Marriage
- ⚭✖ Banned
- Censorship
- ✖ State-enforced
- Changing Gender
- ✖ Legal, but requires surgery
- Gender-Affirming Care
- ✖ Restricted
- Non-Binary Gender Recognition
- ✖ Not legally recognized
- Discrimination
- ✖ Illegal in some contexts
- Employment Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Housing Discrimination
- ✖ No protections
- Adoption
- Ambiguous
- Intersex Infant Surgery
- Unknown
- Military
- Ambiguous
- Donating Blood
- Ambiguous
- Conversion Therapy
- ✖ Not banned
- Age of Consent
- ✔ Equal
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Homosexual activity in Kepulauan Riau is varies by region.
23/2002) of the same sex or gender is not criminalized in the Indonesian Penal Code.
Same-sex sexual activity in Indonesia is legal (not criminalized), with the exception of the Aceh province.
Same-sex marriage in Kepulauan Riau is banned.
Censorship of LGBT issues in Kepulauan Riau is state-enforced.
Right to change legal gender in Kepulauan Riau is legal, but requires surgery.
Legal recognition of non-binary gender in Kepulauan Riau is not legally recognized.
LGBT discrimination in Kepulauan Riau is illegal in some contexts.
LGBT employment discrimination in Kepulauan Riau is no protections.
Theoretically there is a guarantee of protection against discriminatory practices based on any
ground in the Constitution and the Human Rights Law (No. 39/1999). Similarly, the Labor Law
(No. 13/2003) prohibits discrimination in employment. However, this is little known in LGBT
communities, and has not been used in court in a case to challenge discrimination against LGBT
people.
LGBT housing discrimination in Kepulauan Riau is no protections.
The country in general is very hostile with LGBT community.
Same-sex adoption in Kepulauan Riau is ambiguous.
(1) Adoption of children by single parents can only be carried out by Indonesian citizens after obtaining permission from the Minister.
The granting of permits as intended in paragraph (1) can be delegated to the head of a social agency in the province.
Under this technicality, a LGBT prospective parent may be able to adopt while single, no known case has been documented of minister approval.
Intersex infant surgery in Kepulauan Riau is unknown.
Serving openly in military in Kepulauan Riau is ambiguous.
The former Commander of the National Armed Forces of Indonesia, Andika Perkasa stated there are no laws banning LGBT people to serve in Indonesian Military. However, he realized that the Indonesian military doesn’t allow “indecent sexual acts” to happen in the military. LGBT people can serve only if they were to abstain from having intercourse with the same-sex.
Blood donations by MSMs in Kepulauan Riau is ambiguous.
Conversion therapy in Kepulauan Riau is not banned.
Equal age of consent in Kepulauan Riau is equal.